Bloomberg: An investigation details the growing black market for Starlink kits being traded and activated illegally, including in regions subject to US sanctions — Starlink’s effectiveness as a communications tool makes the satellite internet service a target for a growing… Continue Reading →
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A breach seller dumped a dataset of 73M AT&T customers online, three years after a hacker teased such a leak; AT&T won’t say how its users’ data was leaked — Three years after a hacker first… Continue Reading →
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google promotes Liz Reid to Head of Search and names Cheenu Venkatachary as the lead of Search quality and ranking, among other changes to its Search team — Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu… Continue Reading →
New York Times: The TikTok divestment bill’s progress slows down in the Senate, as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not decided whether to bring the bill to the floor — Legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese owner to sell the app… Continue Reading →
Financial Times: Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are storing, instead of selling, second-hand chipmaking machines over fears of breaking US export controls and sanctions — Samsung and SK Hynix have been storing used machines in warehouses as US-China tensions rise … Continue Reading →
Simon Willison’s Weblog: The GPT-4 barrier has finally been broken, with Gemini 1.5, Mistral Large, Claude 3 Opus, and Inflection-2.5 benchmarking near or even above OpenAI’s model — Four weeks ago, GPT-4 remained the undisputed champion: consistently at the top… Continue Reading →
TechCrunch: X’s audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users’ IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting — The new X calling feature can hurt your privacy — In his quest… Continue Reading →
Reuters: A US judge says Google must face advertisers’ antitrust lawsuit, but dismisses some claims, including those focused on ad-buying tools used by large advertisers — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes… Continue Reading →
Reuters: Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth’s technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber… Continue Reading →
Chris Welch / The Verge: Three years after Spotify’s original announcement that it would launch a higher-quality audio subscription, the company has yet to roll out the feature — I was really hoping I wouldn’t have to do this again. … Continue Reading →
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